On 20/09/14 16:13, Ken Takata wrote:
Hi,
Currently, +tcl/dyn is only supported on Windows. Attached patch
enables dynamic loading of Tcl on Unix (including Cygwin).
I'm not sure that this feature is really needed, but I hope this is
useful especially for Cygwin.
[...]
For people like me, who compile their own Vim, its usefulness would be
mainly one of memory footprint: the Vim executable would be smaller, the
Tcl libraries could be shared with other dynamically-linked programs,
and they wouldn't have to be loaded at all if not used. At compile-time
it is not much of a problem, since configure checks for the presence of
the "development" packages required to compile each requested feature.
However, for software distributors, such as (among others) the Linux
distros and the makers of Cygwin, it would be really useful since it
would allow distributing a Tcl-enabled Vim (compatible with the version
of Tcl distributed in the same version of the distro) which would still
run for users who decided to install Vim and/or gvim but not Tcl, and
there would be no need to compile separately an equivalent "Vim without
Tcl".
Best regards,
Tony.
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